My thoughts on the Metaphysics of S3
quote[quote]I’m not Catholic, so I don’t know much of anything about purgatory. But Water and Fire seem to be Heaven and Hell, a permanent treatment. The only evidence otherwise is K-Town (“My punishment is over.”). I would think the only thing analogous to purgatory in the Lexx cosmologies would be the limboes where wait while others occupy the planet. There would be two, one for Water and one for Fire. [/quote]
But how do we know it’s a permanent treatment? We aren’t on Fire and Water long enough to know if some of the souls get to move on to something else if the twin worlds ARE Purgatory. I still have trouble seeing Water as Heaven. How can it be Heaven when all the inhabitants have to be on the alert for an attack from Prince? Your suffering is supposed to end when you finally attain Heaven, but on all the cities of Water we’ve seen there have been people dying from balloon attacks and the cities set afire.
quote[quote] Hogtown doesn’t seem to me to fit in with Fire being a punishment. It’s populated by a lot of intellectuals who want to classify and categorize the planet Fire. I don’t see how they’re bad, or how the place is a punishment. [/quote]
But if you believe Fire is Hell, then Hogtown HAS to be a place of punishment. If it is a place of eternal punishment, then their punishment is never being able to achieve their goal, as Headgehog and Flamegrape have stated. If it IS Purgatory, then the punishment would end once they come to realize the futility of what they’re doing and change their behavior.
quote[quote] I don’t think Gametown was supposed to be any sort of punishment or learning experience. That’s some people’s idea of Heaven. For me, that would be closer to Hell, though. Perpetual team sports? At least in junior high it only seemed like forever. [/quote]
Heheh, reminds me of the saying “One man’s Heaven is another man’s Hell.” But again, if it WAS Heaven, why did people have to stay alert for an attack from Prince, and why did they have to die?
quote[quote] Now, how can Garden City be any kind of punishment? There’s nothing wrong with it (besides that nasty weed Lyekka ). The Garden would be like the ultimate reward. I know I’d rather be there than any other place in Lexx’s two universes. Everything’s just perfect and beautiful and happy.[/quote]
Hardly perfect and happy when, again, there’s a warning gong on Garden and Prince’s balloons attack the city. We saw Lyekka die on camera, no doubt the gardeners were killed, too. Guess my “naughty nuns” joke did go over very well, but I was referring to the fact that the only sex on Garden is plant sex. The gardeners seem a bit naïve about human sexual intercourse and oblivious to the phallic and labial symbols all over the place.
There are just too many similarities on Fire and Water to say they are Hell and Heaven, which are supposed to be diametrically opposite. The beings on both planets die, go to a holding area, and “wake up” again. Prince has some influence on Fire, a lesser amount on Water, but he, too, is trapped in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Prince is the “ruler” of Fire, but why don’t we see his equivalent on Water? This says to me that Fire and Water are part of the same continuum and Prince is only the caretaker of the place. This version of Purgatory is a place where you have to write 100 times (or keep waking up) “I must not misbehave in class” until the lesson sinks in and you get to move on to Heaven. I just can’t see the Devil (Prince) having that much influence in Heaven if Fire is supposed to be Hell and Water is supposed to be Heaven.